Mike Newell

Features

Beyond Love: The Wisdom of Love in the Time of Cholera

By Marcelo Ballvé

Gabriel García Márquez knew that love, like cholera, strikes unexpectedly, renders the body powerless, and is blind to class or race. [4 April 2008]

Reviews

Love in the Time of Cholera

By Cynthia Fuchs

Fermina remains a cipher, an object in Juvenal's possession and of Florentino's endless affection without an emotional life of her own. [16 November 2007]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

By Todd R. Ramlow

It is sad, though perhaps 'realistic,' that the lesson of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is that all institutions and authority, Good or Evil, are corrupt. [18 November 2005]

The Good Father (1985)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Within minutes of its start, Mike Newell's The Good Father has thus established Bill's rage. [7 July 2005]

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Berkley-educated, Katherine is a 'forward thinker,' a 'bohemian' who believes that education opens doors. [15 March 2004]

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Katherine has her hands full, even aside from looking for romance (though this happens too, as this is, after all, a Julia Roberts movie). [18 December 2003]